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Number bonds - the foundations for future success in maths
As a Kumon Instructor, I am sometimes asked why we require repeated practice of basic mental addition without allowing our students to count on their fingers? If they get the right answer using their fingers, why do they need to keep practising 3+2, 8+2, 6+2, mentally?
Why do many of our students, even those who are already dealing with multiplication or fractions at school, often start the Kumon programme on basic addition (plus 1, plus 2, plus 3) before progressing to mixed addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and higher maths?
The answer is that we are laying the foundations for future success in more advanced maths.
Why do many of our students, even those who are already dealing with multiplication or fractions at school, often start the Kumon programme on basic addition (plus 1, plus 2, plus 3) before progressing to mixed addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and higher maths?
The answer is that we are laying the foundations for future success in more advanced maths.
Jun 2020
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Happy Chinese New Year!
Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, marks the beginning of a new Lunar New Year and the end of the coldest season in China. This year, the Spring Festival starts on 25 January (New Year’s Eve) and ends on the 11 February 2021.
Jan 2020
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How does Kumon encourage children to think for themselves?
At Kumon, we want children to have the ability and confidence to be able to think for themselves, both now, at university and for the rest of their lives. Increasingly in today's world, using their existing knowledge to form and try out hypotheses is a required skill that will also set them in good stead across all academic subjects. From studying with Kumon they will learn to make judgements based on their own logic, and we believe every child, regardless of age or school year, is able to do this with practice.
Nov 2019
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The wonderfully weird language of Roald Dahl
If we said to you "This swatchscollop tastes absolutely filthsome", would you know what we were talking about?
Not unless you were fluent in Gobblefunk, a language made up by Roald Dahl in The BFG. But the joy of Dahls’ words are that we can piece together the meaning from the sound and feeling they give the reader, which is just one of the many reasons that children have found so much fun in his writing.
Not unless you were fluent in Gobblefunk, a language made up by Roald Dahl in The BFG. But the joy of Dahls’ words are that we can piece together the meaning from the sound and feeling they give the reader, which is just one of the many reasons that children have found so much fun in his writing.
Sep 2019
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